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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1910
Page
5
John A. Lapp urges immediate printing of all bills after presentation to lawmakers and immediate slip printing of enacted laws for free distribution. He notes current practice hides details until committee reports, causing defects and penalties, and suggests subscriber access to all bills and public copies of laws.
S.J. Singer & Sons announces made to order all wool suits and overcoats from mill ends priced at 11.75 with satisfaction guaranteed. Located at 43 West Washington Street.
Six weeks after passage the state would pay 30 cents a page for a certified copy. Mr Lapp notes 440 senate bills in the last session produced 287 printed bills and 246 unchanged, leaving 160 extra bills to print. In the house 634 bills were introduced and 323 printed, leaving 311 needing type. The expense would be small compared to the value of facilitating legislation.
The Indiana state board of tax commissioners plans to ask legislature to empower hiring specialists to locate sequestered personal property and add it to the tax duplicate. They estimate at least 20 percent of personal property is untaxed and would boost state revenue. Experts would be paid a commission on uncovered untaxed property. The final plan awaits county abstracts showing taxes collected and unpaid.
Denver dispatch reports Rufus Clark estate dispute as daughter Mary Walker from Bedford Iowa battles to overturn the will. Widow Ella Clark keeps homestead of eleven acres and 20000 dollars, daughter receives 20000 dollars, rest to Clark missionary school in West Africa. daughter seeks different allocation to honor her father’s philanthropy.
Louis Trixler of Huntington will accept the chief deputyship under the clerk of the supreme court under J Fred France. He plans to run a Huntington news stand sold to George Menish an Erie engineer. The move is noted despite his wife’s objection around Thanksgiving.
J. Singer & Sons at 45 West Washington street advertises a special mill end sale with custom suits or overcoats priced at 11.75 each, with values up to 23.00.
Daniel C. Marsh reports his son Carl F. Marsh was attacked near Ciudad Juarez by four Mexicans, one calling them two Gringoes. Carl's nose was broken, four rangers captured the assailants, and the matter is with a Washington secret service man.
A. P. Bourland, secretary of the southern educational board, accompanied a party that recently visited Montgomery and Tippecanoe county schools, meeting with the superintendent of public instruction.
Special to The Sun reports a foreign girl kidnapped from Bremen near Columbus Ohio was dropped from a Lake Shore train in South Bend Indiana. Unable to speak English or recall her name, she wandered until a police officer found her Thursday night.
In Hong Kong on December 2 thirty nuns fleeing the Macao revolt against the Portuguese government were seized by Chinese brigands. They were taken into the mountains as soldiers search for the bandits. Local religious authorities urge immediate efforts to locate the missing women if they are still alive. The brigands are described as a dangerous highwaymen clan led by a bold commander.
William L. Walker sues William M. Wharstedt seeking reversal of a $50 decree after a justice of the peace awarded the plaintiff. The superior court in room No 4 heard the appeal and judge Weir ruled against the plaintiff, assessing $52. Harker cites court errors.
A letter to Charles A. Greathouse commends Indiana country families for offering their children education opportunities equal to city kids. The author emphasizes rural schooling as essential to local progress and suggests ongoing support for nationwide educational equity.
A 14 year old boy who pulled apart a live bird before Judge Stubbs in juvenile court will be medically examined to determine if an operation could help him. He has been at the German Protestant orphans home and shown an abnormal cruelty tendency.
The Indiana engineering society will hold its thirty first annual meeting at the Denison hotel in this city from January 12 to 14. A banquet will be held on the opening evening at the hotel and on the next day the power plants of the city will be inspected.
Mrs. John I. Nunez aged 33 wife of Mishawaka superintendent of schools and daughter of State Senator E Volney Binghiaro died Friday after an operation at Epworth hospital in South Bend.
A barber testimonial promotes Poslam as a versatile skin cure that quickly heals abrasions pimples and infections and improves complexions. It claims rapid results within hours for eczema acne and barber's itch with a mail order sample offered from Emergency Laboratories in New York City and available in trial and regular jar sizes.
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